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Senate panel to vote on Trump’s first five judicial picks |
The Senate Judiciary Committee is slated to vote on whether to advance five of President Trump's initial set of second-term judicial nominees. Here's what to know: |
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The nominees include Whitney Hermandorfer, whom Trump nominated to serve on the 6th Circuit. Hermandorfer, 37, is a lawyer serving under Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and has clerked for three conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices. Earlier this month during the committee’s first hearing on judicial nominees, Hermandorfer faced questions about her youth and her support of the Republican president's order curtailing birthright citizenship. Read more.
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The other nominees picked to serve as federal trial court judges in Missouri are Joshua Divine, Maria Lanahan, Zachary Bluestone and Cristian Stevens. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has called Divine the architect of the state's successful challenge to a plan by the Biden administration to forgive student loans and said he spearheaded the defense of the state's restrictions on treatments for minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Read more.
- Trump is expected to have the chance to make more than 100 judicial nominations over the next four years, adding to the conservative stamp he made on the judiciary with 234 appointments during his first term.
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Another nominee, Emil Bove, Trump’s former personal lawyer and 3rd Circuit pick, faced the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday and denied whistleblower claims that he advised the administration to defy a court order. Read more about that hearing here and below.
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Since taking office, Trump and his allies have accused judges of being part of a "judicial coup" and called for their impeachment, as key U.S. federal judiciary members warned of rising threats and "concerning" efforts by Republican lawmakers to remove jurists over rulings blocking Trump's policies.
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The Trump administration on Tuesday sued the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and all 15 of its judges over an order last month that automatically blocks for two business days the deportation of migrants in the state who file a new lawsuit challenging their detention. Read the complaint.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue rulings in pending, argued cases at 10 a.m. ET.
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The state of California will ask a federal judge to temporarily stop President Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs from going into effect. In early June, the Federal Circuit allowed the tariffs to remain in place while it reviews a lower-court decision blocking them on the grounds that Trump had exceeded his authority by imposing them.
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Closing arguments are due to begin in Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial in New York. On Tuesday, Combs' lawyers showed jurors text messages in which Diddy’s former girlfriend Casandra Ventura said she loved him and suggested she enjoyed participating in "Freak Offs."
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U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in D.C. will hold a preliminary injunction hearing in a lawsuit brought by a coalition of nonprofits and community organizations seeking to block the Trump administration from terminating $811 million in grants, including some impacting victim service programs ranging from trauma centers and sign language interpretation for domestic violence victims to police training.
- U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston will hold a final pretrial conference ahead of a bench trial in a lawsuit by university faculty groups challenging the Trump administration's targeting of noncitizen pro-Palestinian campus activists for arrests and deportations after officials.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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